An election is a job interview. A panel (the voters) is presented with a set of candidates. Each member of the panel evaluates the candidates. Then the panel members announce, through their…
Category: Letters to the Editor
LETTER TO EDITOR: Five Lessons from a Banned Book …
OIOpublisher “It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It’s the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the…
ENDORSEMENT FOR MARY LEVERETTE, WHEELER CITY COUNCIL
I am happily endorsing Mary Leverette for Wheeler City Council. Her intelligence and enthusiasm will be a welcome addition to the council. She has attended nearly every council meeting and has a…
A different take on water billing in Manzanita….
Ordinances are amended or replaced over time to reflect changes. Manzanita is getting ready to reevaluate its Comp Plan and there will be Ordinances that will be rewritten, updated, amended. This is…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY UNITED AGAINST BOOK BANS: Letters Continue to School Board, Request for Reversal Not on TSD#9 School Board Agenda
EDITOR’S NOTE: The letters continue to come in, and more community members sign up united against book bans. The Tillamook School District Board did not have the book ban reversal on the…
LETTER TO EDITOR: Book Banning in Tillamook
As a writer and long-time high school English teacher, I find myself deeply troubled by the Tillamook School Board’s decision to ban the lovely novel “How The Garcia Girls Lost their Accents”…
LETTERS TO TILLAMOOK SCHOOL BOARD & SUPERINTENDENT: Banning Books Abhorent; Call to Reverse Ban
Dear School Board members & Superintendent, We are writing to you to express our distress and disagreement with the recent removal and banning of Julia Alvarez’ book, “How The Garcia Girls Lost…
Request for reversal of Tillamook School Board’s decision to remove How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez from high school curriculum
EDITOR’S NOTE: Over 50 local, Tillamook County community members signed a request to the TSD#9 School Board to reverse the book ban. Local people continue to be added to the list ……
Letter to Editor: Water Rates Comparison of Three Villages
Having read the discussions about water rates in Manzanita, I was curious about how we, as a town, compare to our neighbors. Until 2024, Manzanita hadn’t raised its rates in about nine…
AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS – LETTER TO TILLAMOOK SCHOOL BOARD – Over 700 signatures to bring back Garcia Girls
September 3, 2024 Dear Tillamook School Board Members, We, the undersigned authors and illustrators, are writing to oppose the removal of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents from your district’s 10th-grade…